ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,777, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Center, distribution control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Shoichi Nagamitsu (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center is configured to distribute, to a vehicle, update data of software of a control device mounted on the vehicle. The center includes one or more processors configured to make a determination on whether to distribute, as the update data, update software or difference data between current software and the update software based on first information on the software of the control device mounted on the v...